You say tomato ...

[shadowsource]

A very ugly condition!

We in the US have a social disease called unemployment. When we become that way, it is because we are laid off or fired, unless we have quit. In the UK, one is made REDUNDANT and becomes a redundant worker. That really takes the biscuit!

 

[Ask For More]

and Posh Spice was beautiful and sexy i think ... Victoria Adams ... didn't she marry a famous snooty soccer player?

Sssssshhh...that soccer player has just single-handedly taken England to the World Cup Finals; he's a hero!

Let's not get started on slang....we could be here all day!

 

[Isabella Thorne]

really AskForMore, wow ...

i had no idea ... i don't follow sports at all ... and soccer is not very popular here ... so i had no idea ... that is quite a coincidence that i would even think about him ... well that is great ... and i am sure he is great too ... i meant no harm when i called him snooty ... just like Victoria called herself posh ...

so what is his name anyways? i still don't have a clue ... lol ... no seriously ...

and how cum you are getting so bossy with me now and telling me not to get started on slang ... hmmmm ... the way you said that ... it was strict, you know, dear ... you even used exclamation points ... almost as if you were going to spank me ... hee hee hee ...

oh and i almost forgot ... Ousider why did you call Dixon "wabbit"? is that another Brit expression that i am not aware of? ...

 

[OUTSIDER]

really AskForMore, wow ...

i had no idea ... i don't follow sports at all ... and soccer is not very popular here ... so i had no idea ... that is quite a coincidence that i would even think about him ... well that is great ... and i am sure he is great too ... i meant no harm when i called him snooty ... just like Victoria called herself posh ...

so what is his name anyways? i still don't have a clue ... lol ... no seriously ...

and how cum you are getting so bossy with me now and telling me not to get started on slang ... hmmmm ... the way you said that ... it was strict, you know, dear ... you even used exclamation points ... almost as if you were going to spank me ... hee hee hee ...

oh and i almost forgot ... Ousider why did you call Dixon "wabbit"? is that another Brit expression that i am not aware of? ...

Oooooo you wabbit........Elmer Fudd, think "Duck season...rabbit season.....duck season.......rabbit season......rabbit season....duck season..........FIRE!!!".

Mr Posh Spice is David Beckham(sp) and neither him or his wife are at all posh.....in fact their both as common as muck....."BUT" he can kick a football.

And finally after being made redundant (sacked, laid off, given the elbow, given the old heave ho, given your marching orders) you then become a "Job Seeker" which is govt double talk for unemployed.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Re: Re: Damn Yankees

Yankees - actually own one that runs
Dixie - one out back on blocks

Good one!

 

[Wyatt]

If I said to an American "Can you knock me up first thing in the morning" I wouldn't get an early morning call.Apparently John Cleese said this to a hotel receptionist and nearly got arrested.

 

[OUTSIDER]

If I said to an American "Can you knock me up first thing in the morning" I wouldn't get an early morning call.Apparently John Cleese said this to a hotel receptionist and nearly got arrested.

Durring the WW2 the US troop's thought it highly funny and confusing to be asked "would you like knocking up in the morning" what was actually meant was would you like to be woken up in the morning, at that time not everyone had an alarm clock and they would get a man with a long pole to tap or "knock" on the bedroom window in the morning to get you up in time to go to work hence the term "knocking up"

 

[Ask For More]

and how cum you are getting so bossy with me now and telling me not to get started on slang ... hmmmm ... the way you said that ... it was strict, you know, dear ... you even used exclamation points ... almost as if you were going to spank me ... hee hee hee ...

Such sweet treasures....

 

[sch00lteacher]

USA = B-1

Taliban = Oh Fuck!

 

[sch00lteacher]

B-2

USA = B-2

Taliban = Oh Fuck!

 

[sch00lteacher]

B-52

USA = B-52

Taliban = Oh Fuck!

 

[sch00lteacher]

Tomahawk

USA = Tomahawk.

Taliban = Oh Fuck!

 

[sch00lteacher]

Cruise Missile

USA = Cruise Missile

Taliban = Oh Fuck!

 

[sch00lteacher]

F-18

USA = F-18 Hornet

Taliban = Shit, RUN!

 

[Myrrdin]

... but in Canada we use the expression "fanny packs"

Fanny pack = bum-bag.

with regards to cars,
US....................UK
windshield........windscreen.
trunk................ boot
hood.................bonnet
gas...................petrol.
stick shift.........gear knob

 

[Isabella Thorne]

You say potato ...

Well, Mr. and Mrs. Potato had "eyes" for each other, and finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, whom they called 'Yam'.

Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life.

They warned her about going out and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad name for herself like 'Hot Potato', and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots.

Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her!

But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become a Couch Potato, either.

She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring cousins.

When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for the Hard Boiled guys from Ireland.

And the greasy guys from France called the French Fries.

And when she went out west, to watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped.

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with those high class Yukon Golds.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. that's Potato University) so that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips.

But in spite of all they did for her, one day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.

Tom Brokaw! Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset.

They told Yam she couldn't possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just ..........



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[MishkarinaSkye]

hey Schoolteacher....

YOU, my dear, gave me the biggest LOL of the morning!!

Thanks!!!

 

[sch00lteacher]

Re: hey Schoolteacher....

YOU, my dear, gave me the biggest LOL of the morning!!

Thanks!!!

I bow gracefully and accept your thanks.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Knock Knock ...

who's there?

John Cleese ... who told me once that of course "knockers" is slang for boobies too ... ha ha ha

well Outsider dear .. i was just a wee bit mixed up because "wabbit" is used also as a variation for our bunny-boy, Thumper .... and yea of course as per Mr. Fudd ....

now you see that, Schoolteacher? In England you would have bowed poshly ... lol ...
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Thhhhaaaaaat's all folks ...

 

[Isabella Thorne]

.... meanwhile in a crowded bistro ...

Funny Girl Fanny Bryce was overheard seductively whispering to long time guy pal Omar Sharrif ....

"I'm sorry darling I don't have room in my fanny pack for all of your fags."

ha ha ... a Brit friend just emailed me to remind me of another slang term ... "fag" ...

Canada / U.K. = fag / ciggie

U.S. / Canada = fag / homosexual

thanx for the reminder, StudMuffin darling ...
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Hey you, yeah you.
We never listen to the radio.
They never play no punk rock-n-roll,
they play dance trax, man that's wack.
White boys that wanna be black
Leave the bubblegum to the little girls
But in New York City let's get down to the nitty gritty,
down to the nitty gritty yeah!
Pop is for fags. and every time I hear that song I gag.
Pop is for fags, yeah----- lemme hear it now!

~The Bullys~

We've got to all smoke together
Good friends, there for each other
Never ever forget that
I got fags and you've got weed, so
Reach for the skins
Climb every mountain higher

~S Club 7~

 

[Ask For More]

So in Canada a fag can be used to describe a cigarette and a gay person? That must cause some problems...

 

[Primeone]

In UK Nancy Mitford, who wrote about such things, said that 'serviette' was definitely non-U. Napkin is the word used by the posh people. (Non-U meaning not upper class.)
POSH specifically referred to those people travelling to India (port out and starboard home).
Fanny Hill was a joke by John Cleland (the book's author) ... a rough translation of mons veneris.
In Australia, in some quarters, a person made redundant is 'redunded', usually in the context of some sort of severance pay, as distinct from laid off ... with nothing.
It was long before WW2 that there was a person going round with a pole 'knocking up' the early risers. Most people had clocks of the alarm style by 1939!
Oh Yes! And 'bum' in UK developed from the mumbled 'bottom'.

 

[OUTSIDER]

In UK Nancy Mitford, who wrote about such things, said that 'serviette' was definitely non-U. Napkin is the word used by the posh people. (Non-U meaning not upper class.)
POSH specifically referred to those people travelling to India (port out and starboard home).
Fanny Hill was a joke by John Cleland (the book's author) ... a rough translation of mons veneris.
In Australia, in some quarters, a person made redundant is 'redunded', usually in the context of some sort of severance pay, as distinct from laid off ... with nothing.
It was long before WW2 that there was a person going round with a pole 'knocking up' the early risers. Most people had clocks of the alarm style by 1939!
Oh Yes! And 'bum' in UK developed from the mumbled 'bottom'.

partly right, although many did have alarm clocks by 1939 many more did not and "Knocking up" was still very common especially in the north of england and wales, I have this from family members who lived in those area's and even in London it was not unheard of

 

[Guest]

i don't think there are too many people up here who say 'fag' for cigarette anymore... mostly it's either 'cigarette' or 'a smoke'...
ie. "i have to buy some smokes" or "i need a pack of cigarettes"


of course, i'm a non-smoker *G* so what do i know?

 

[Isabella Thorne]

really Unregistered? up where i wonder? where are you?

i have shopped in a store called:
"Mags and Fags" ...

i gave up smoking fags over a year ago ... so what do i know ... lol